If one were to ask just how powerful Susanoo truly was, then across the entire shinobi world, no one in the past would have been able to give an answer.
After all, those who had experienced the power of Susanoo—every single one of them without exception—had already reunited in the Pure Land. Their bodies had likely long since rotted into pulp.
But starting now, the shinobi world would probably have one more person capable of answering that question.
Yes—Hyūga Hiashi, who had endured a strike from Uchiha Keizumi's armored Wood Golem, had not died. Or rather, the Tenseigan Chakra Mode had barely kept him alive.
Even though Hiashi's Tenseigan chakra was not true Six Paths-level power, it was still Tenseigan chakra!
"…Have I lost?"
Above the lava pool in the Valley of the End, Hiashi's body was being scorched, black smoke rising from him. Yet he seed completely numb to the pain, rely gazing up at the sky with his Tenseigan.
"Just like Uchiha Madara back then… I wanted to leave Konoha, and he wanted to leave Konoha."
"He died in the Valley of the End… and I will die here as well…"
At this mont, Hiashi realized he felt little regret. Or rather, from the mont he chose to slaughter the Hyūga clan in order to fulfill Hyūga Hinata, his own life and death had ceased to matter much to him.
The reason he had wanted to leave Konoha was nothing more than to prevent the Tenseigan from falling into Konoha's hands.
"…Can you… bring this Tenseigan to Neji?"
"He is your student as well. He has inherited your sense of justice… let Neji inherit the Tenseigan…"
Hiashi looked at Keizumi, who was walking toward him as Susanoo dissipated and even the Wood Golem began to collapse, and made his final request.
It was sowhat ironic.
Hiashi had always believed that Keizumi used justice as a banner to eliminate dissent.
Yet at the mont of death, he found Keizumi more trustworthy than anyone else in Konoha.
Keizumi did not respond.
He simply expressionlessly ignited the lava beneath Hiashi, allowing it to completely engulf and swallow his body.
And with Hiashi's death, the Hyūga main family elders—who had been detained by the ANBU and Sarutobi Hiruzen—seed to sense sothing.
They said nothing.
They rely let out a long sigh…
…and then sealed their own chakra points, severing their heart ridians.
To a certain extent, the Hyūga clan's main and branch family system collapsed in this era.
After all, Hiashi and the main family were completely dead, and even the branch family mbers had already sacrificed themselves not long ago to complete the Tenseigan.
As Hiashi and the elders died, Keizumi saw the familiar text flash before his eyes:
—Tenseigan Ocular Power Granted!
Keizumi already possessed the Byakugan—sothing he had obtained in the past while carrying out his "justice" within the Hyūga clan.
And now, with this act of justice completed, as Hiashi and the elders died… his Byakugan began evolving toward the Tenseigan.
However, this gifted ocular power was incomplete.
After all, even Hiashi himself could only wield Tenseigan power comparable to the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
"My Byakugan… now possesses Tenseigan-level ocular power comparable to the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan…"
"And unlike Hiashi, both of my eyes hold this power—and it is entirely my own!"
Keizumi could faintly sense that sothing deeper was changing within his eyes, but he knew this was not the ti to investigate.
As he reached out and pressed his hand against the massive Tenseigan floating in the air, his gaze suddenly froze.
He had not expected that after Hiashi's death, this Tenseigan—created by the entire Hyūga clan—would begin transmitting its pure ocular power to him.
It was as if the Tenseigan recognized him… as part of the Hyūga main family.
"If I continue absorbing this massive Tenseigan's power… my own Tenseigan might truly complete its evolution soday."
Keizumi was montarily stunned.
At present, his eyes contained two different types of ocular power:
One—the power of the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, already evolving toward the Rinnegan.
The other—the Tenseigan power, which could fully develop if he willed it.
And according to his perception… these two powers were beginning to rge, even evolving together slowly.
...
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"
"Hyūga Hiashi, how could you die like that—so cleanly?!"
"Why would you entrust the Tenseigan to Uchiha Keizumi?!"
"Shouldn't you have released it—or hidden it?!"
Far away, Black Zetsu watched Keizumi grasp the Tenseigan, nearly unable to stop himself from rushing over to seize it.
But the Flas of Judgnt constantly reminded him—if he made even the slightest move, the consequences would be disastrous.
"Black Zetsu, we should go!"
"If we stay any longer, that guy Uchiha Keizumi might notice us…"
White Zetsu couldn't help but urge him. It had its own ambitions—it had no desire to suffer the sa fate as Black Zetsu, being burned endlessly by that strange fla.
"…Let's go!"
Black Zetsu cast one last reluctant glance at the massive Tenseigan.
He was already thinking—was there any way to steal it?
If not… would bringing Obito into it make it possible?
As the battle ended, Sarutobi Hiruzen, Tsunade, and Jiraiya approached from the distance toward Keizumi.
They were also curious—what exactly had the Hyūga clan created, and how it allowed Hiashi to wield such terrifying power.
"…It's beautiful."
As Tsunade and the others drew closer, they finally saw the Tenseigan clearly.
Looking at the azure light it radiated, her first thought wasn't about its power—
but its beauty.
"But it's dangerous."
"And even that beauty… is deeply distorted."
"If I'm not mistaken, this eye is the aggregation of countless Hyūga clan mbers' eyes."
Fukasaku, standing on Jiraiya's shoulder, observed the Tenseigan carefully.
Compared to its radiant glow, what concerned him more was the terrifying power contained within it.
If he hadn't just witnessed Keizumi's strength firsthand, he would have already tried to persuade Jiraiya—to have Konoha hand this Tenseigan over to Mount Myōboku for safekeeping.
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